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Today · September 7
Washington Wants an AI Lab in Every School. What Actually Teaches? AI in education Washington Wants an AI Lab in Every School. What Actually Teaches? A bipartisan bill would put an AI lab in every K-12 school, on a wave of AI-powered classroom products making the same promise. But decades of learning research point to…
September 5
An AI App Says It Raised Scores 8.5%. Ask One Question. AI in education An AI App Says It Raised Scores 8.5%. Ask One Question. A UAE ed-tech giant says its AI personalizes learning and lifted test scores 8.5% in Indonesia. No method, no independent check, and a mechanism the product has not been shown… A Kansas Stoplight for Classroom AI Answers the Wrong Question AI in education A Kansas Stoplight for Classroom AI Answers the Wrong Question A University of Kansas program is teaching Kansas classrooms a color-coded system for how much AI a student is allowed. It is sensible, spreading, and well-meant. But the whole conversation…
September 4
Your Child’s AI Tutor: Teaching, or Only Keeping Them Busy? AI in education Your Child’s AI Tutor: Teaching, or Only Keeping Them Busy? A new IBM study says AI is now a weekly fixture in most middle and high school classrooms. It measures how much AI children get and how parents feel about…
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September 2
AI Makes Your Child’s Schoolwork Easier. That’s Exactly the Problem. AI in education AI Makes Your Child’s Schoolwork Easier. That’s Exactly the Problem. A new study found that when people are mentally tired, even strong critical thinking stops protecting them from swallowing whatever AI hands over. The finding points at something bigger: when…
August 30
Two Hours of AI a Day: Personalized, But Is Your Child Learning? AI in education Two Hours of AI a Day: Personalized, But Is Your Child Learning? A private school near Raleigh teaches core academics by AI two hours a day, and the local coverage never asked the question that decides everything: does the software teach a…
August 27
Stanford Gave Kids an AI Tutor. Many Never Used It. AI in education Stanford Gave Kids an AI Tutor. Many Never Used It. Stanford handed 355 elementary students their own AI reading tutor. Many never opened it, and the ones who did used it far too little to help. The fix was not… Google Built the Study Tool That Teaches, and the One That Doesn’t AI in education Google Built the Study Tool That Teaches, and the One That Doesn’t On August 19 Google bundled quizzes, flashcards and a talk-to-it assistant into one student hub. Some of it makes a child do the hard work of learning. Some of it… An AI Tutor’s Pitch Reaches for a Myth Science Retired in 2008 AI in education An AI Tutor’s Pitch Reaches for a Myth Science Retired in 2008 A London AI tutor raised millions on a neuroscience story and a promise to teach your child their way. One of those selling points was debunked back in 2008. Here…
August 24
The Label ‘Gamified’ Won’t Tell You If an AI Teaches AI in education The Label ‘Gamified’ Won’t Tell You If an AI Teaches A Washington, D.C. school built an AI math bot that makes students defend their reasoning, sometimes against a wrong answer it gives on purpose. The article calls it ‘gamified.’ That…